Klarinet Archive - Posting 000249.txt from 2003/05

From: Bob Head <headhousehold@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Importing Clarinet
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 04:53:37 -0400

My advice, from bitter experience across a range of shipped items around the
world is NEVER use a commercial courier. They are considered 'fair game' by
all the customs and quarantine people for expensive inspections that they
add to the bill. By contast, normal postal items also get well inspected but
never get any charges for it, because if they did there would be a national
outcry about it. Imagine a young family having to pay $100 for customs/
quarantine inspection of a woollen jumper knitted by grandma in another
country for a baby granddaughter and sent by post. But if it goes DHL,
Fedex, UPS etc etc - get your wallet out!
Bob Head
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Importing Clarinet

> I have never had any problems crossing the Canadian border to play. I
> played with members of the Montreal Symphony and took two basset horns
> into Canada. Larry Combs played one and I played the other. No
> problems. In that case my wife carried one and I carried the other.
>
> Same thing with members of the Toronto Symphony. The customs
> difficulties that I described arose when I shipped it by FEDEX.
>
> Dan
>
> Albert Nemiroff wrote:
> > What happens in regard to fees and taxes when a musician, other
performer,
> > or other professional/tradesman transports equipment required to render
a
> > service when crossing the border?
> > Al
> >
> > Subject: Importing Clarinet
> >
> >>Dan,
> >
> > Citizens and business on both sides suffer endlessly. .... your
bassethorn
> > problem is absolutely nothing compared to the
> >
> >>cross-border crap I've experienced. Consider yourself lucky!
> >
> > Ed Maurey
> >
> >
> >>>I had to send my basset horn into Canada for repairs. Now keep in mind
> >>>that it was imported FROM Canada in the first place, and I had a
> >>>document to prove that it had been imported only about 45 days earlier,
> >>>and further that it was going back to Canada for warranty repairs.
> >>>
> >>>Nothing mattered. I got a call from Canadian customs and they wanted
to
> >>>slap a $25 import fee on me. I protested, filled out some forms,
> >>>answered some questions, and the import fee into Canada was cancelled.
> >>>
> >>>But when it came back into the US from Canada, I got hit with an import
> >>>duty that I was obliged to pay. Complaints to the US Customs were
> >>
> >>ignored.
> >>
> >>>Dan Leeson
> >>>
> >>>Robert MacMillan wrote: Does anyone know if there is import duty
applied
> >>
> > to Clarinets imported
> >
> >>into Canada from the United States?
> >
> >
> >
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